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Vista desktop shows black screen

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I was playing dragon age and I quit to desktop, and it was hanging there with a black screen for quite a while. After a while it told me that explorer.exe had frozen, so I hit ctrl alt del and restarted. Upon restarting everything up to the login screen was normal but once I logged in, all I saw was my mouse cursor and a black screen. I can hit ctrl alt del and come up with the normal screen except with no option to start task manager. I tried safe mode and get the same result. Suggestions?
Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.
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Update: I put in my vista disk and booted from it to start repair. It can't find anything wrong.
Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.
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Well, I reinstalled vista. It was surprisingly quick. I tried a couple of the fixes I found and none of them were working, and this computer needed to be cleaned out anyways. Could a mod please close this thread?
Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.
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